<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The 76ers' bench has been scorned and criticized all season. The word most often used to describe it has been thin. That probably hasn't bothered the bench players as much as their belief that the unit has been almost forgotten and underused by Sixers coach Maurice Cheeks. So, in recent days, perhaps between the Utah and Boston games, some of the Sixers' reserves told Cheeks that, hey, we can play, too. "We just talked a little bit," forward Matt Barnes said yesterday after the team practiced at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. "We were just talking about defense and we brought up some points that if we go out there, we can handle being in the game and handle making game decisions. The bench, which played a season-low 30 minutes, 46 seconds, or 13 percent of the available minutes, in the defensive debacle that was a 110-102 loss to Utah, logged 82:20, or 26 percent of the minutes, and contributed to the 125-124 triple-overtime victory Friday over the Celtics. Veteran guard Kevin Ollie, who said he did not tell Cheeks anything, conceded that some players might have said something to the coach, "but that's between us." </div> link: http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/sports/ba...ll/13635097.htm
They will be getting some more playing time, trust me. Mo is "making changes" to the line-up and minutes...
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Mo is "making changes" to the line-up and minutes...</div> If the bench are craving for more minutes maybe they should look to play defense and rebound. Sometime the starters doesn't seem to be doing.
